Guild Wars 2

I’ve played a good amount of hours and here is my feedback…

Laurels
Nice addition for one reason! They stack on the character and unlike the mystic coins, they cannot be sold. However they are now the second valuable currency that you get exclusivelly from dayllies and Monthlies, and they kinda make me wish the mystic coins were given from somewhere alse (got some ideas).
The rewards make me wonder if A-net overdid it a little, as many of the stuff feel like things that would fit much better on the gem shop, as they could make some stuff there absolute.
Also, putting ascended stuff there, will make people to ignore the rest of the stuff, as everyone will most likelly hoard their Laurels for them.

Orr
Again, it’s much apreciated. Orr was very densly populated by mobs, that made it very annoying to traverse. This was supposed to be the final area, yet it was a pain to play, so whatever improvements are wellcome. Not sure about the rise in tier 6 mats though. If I wanted to make them less rare, I would have given them as an extra reward for groupe events or unpopular events to draw people there.
Now the next thing I expect to improve there is the underwater content, and the underwater content of GW2 in general.

WvW
Much needed were the character placeholders! I finally know who’s hitting me! If no serious bugs appear in the future, I would like this to appear in the rest of the world.

Dungeons
Much apreciated! The dungeons now are a bit less borring and less fraustrating. Not all problems have been fixed, as I didn’t see in the patch notes any reason to redo a personal story (didn’t spend the time to try it) aside from fixing dificulty spikes and make the nessessary changes for the abolisment of res-rushing. Now we need a few more check points, some buff for the low level players that don’t know what’s comming to them and perhaps make them a bit shorter in duration.

Class Fixes
My engineer’s potions are as random as ever. Thanks for the bug fixes and the scalling turrets though.

Ascended stuff (aka R.I.P. Jeweler dicipline)
As the tittle said, the top tier of Jeweling gear can now be aqquired even during the leveling period, by just making sure you do your daylly and monlthly. Nobody will buy my crafted stuff now, and in a few months, nobody will bother with any exotics.
Makes me woried if they are a bit to easy to aquire…

Living story
Seen all those dead refuges and stuf, but nothing extrordinary… It’s only the beginning of course, and hopefully they won’t do any importand event before my examination period end. I had very deferent expectations though. Nobody bothers with Personal story anymore…

Sorry for the bad inglish, but I was writing this in a hurry…

Performance Optimization

passages, like the bandit cave in queensdale, now perform much better than before.
25~FPS before the patch
60~FPS after the patch

nice job, anet!

Bugfixes

dev’s are worth their money!

Balancing

people like to call those “nerf”…well i don’t.

i really admire the jan. 28th update.
but for a reason beyond my comprehension, most people don’t think so.
please proove me wrong and restore some of my faith in humanity.

sure, it’s a long road and the game never will be perfect…no game is (not even Final Fantasy VII ´´dramatic music``) but a-net delivers…faster than i expect.

no fanboy – just someone who plays the game as intended.

Ascended gear is essentially still a fractal only benefit :x

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

Ascended gear is essentially still a fractal only benefit :x

You are kidding me right?
They are BiS for ALL content.
I am not bothering with any of them though. Hate fractals and dungeons in general.

Its easy to get gold in fotm as well.

As you can see, what bugs me the most in this content is how easy is to aquire Ascended gear…
You can pretty much get all the needed Laurels by playing 1 hour each day for a month, even during leveling, and if they give extra Laurels for the other one-time Achivement, it will become a joke!
Now I feel that all the time and money I spend on my Jeweling proffession is wasted. Some dayllies force you craft random junk, but then you’ll have nothing to do with them!
I hate MMO’s abandoning their old content and GW2 is becoming one of them!